Challenging mindsets, changing behaviours.

Most managers have been promoted for being great at their job, not for leading people. 🎯

That gap shows up fast. Gallup found that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement scores. In other words, people don't leave companies, they leave the way they're managed. Yet new managers are often handed a team and left to figure it out alone.

The fix isn't complicated. Give them the basics early: how to have honest conversations, set clear expectations, and listen properly. Confident managers build calmer, more committed teams. 🌱

Our new manager training does exactly that, helping first-time leaders find their footing before bad habits set in: https://lnkd.in/eGVkbKeH 

What's one thing you wish someone had taught you before your first leadership role?
 

Do you make fully informed decisions?

Decision making is something we do constantly - far more than most people realise. In fact, research suggests that we make around 35,000 decisions a day, most of them small and automatic. However, even the more conservative estimates suggest thousands of choices daily.

The challenge isn’t that our thoughts are clouded by too many decisions, it’s that we rarely stop to consider how we make them.

Most of us rely on an unconscious default style that’s been created over our lifetime. 

Under pressure, we don’t choose our decision-making approach - we revert to it, which limits our ability to make rational, calculated choices. 

That’s why self-awareness is so important.

Understanding your decision-making preferences helps you:

🔍 Recognise your natural biases
⚖️ Balance speed vs. accuracy
🤝 Improve alignment with people who think differently
📈 Make more intentional, consistent decisions
🫵 Be more accountable for the decisions you make

The Insights Discovery colour model is a simple, but powerful way to explore how different styles show up in real decision-making moments.

Better decisions don’t just come from better information…
they come from better awareness of what information you pay attention to, and how you decide what’s important. 

Which decision-making preference from the carousel below resonates with you?

Want to know more? Here's a blog on the top 10 benefits of Insights Discovery: 

🎭 Today’s masterclass on Imposter Syndrome was a powerful reminder that even the most capable professionals can struggle to internalise their success.

We had 32 client practitioners register for the session, creating an honest, reflective space to explore the thinking patterns, comparison traps, The Lemon Juice Bandit (google it) and inner narratives that can quietly hold people back, despite clear evidence of competence and achievement.

📩 One of the key messages today:

Confidence is not the absence of self-doubt - it’s learning how to respond to it differently.

🫶 One attendee messaged:

“Thank you very much, it was an excellent session. I have typed a couple of pages of notes, and this knowledge will be really helpful in my coaching.
Nice to nice to meet everyone!”

Really grateful for the openness, engagement, and vulnerability shown by everyone who joined. Conversations like these matter, especially in coaching, leadership, and practitioner communities where we often support others while quietly questioning ourselves.

👇 Below, you’ll find the Five Types of Imposter Syndrome, developed by Dr. Valerie Young, who has done for imposter syndrome what Brené Brown has done for vulnerability.

You can read our blog on Imposter Syndrome here: https://lnkd.in/eDm2m8wz

Unify Partnership is currently undergoing accreditation with The CPD Standards Office – the UK’s only research-led accreditation body for Continuing Professional Development.

Our training is being assessed against rigorous quality standards to ensure relevance, structure, and learning impact. This badge signifies a commitment to delivering structured, high-quality learning experiences that meet CPD best practices.

Once accredited, our training will be eligible for CPD Certification and promoted through the CPDSO network.

Unify Partnership supports just under 200 Insights Discovery practitioners across the UK.

Across each licence type, we deliver ongoing development plans designed to upskill, enable and support practitioners - from products and services through to wider industry trends.

Yesterday, we hosted our monthly Associate Masterclass, focusing on the Insights Transformational Leadership Profile.

The session sparked open, healthy conversation as we shared perspectives and explored updates from across the Insights partner channel.

We also took a deep dive into the Insights Discovery Transformational Leadership Profile, moving beyond theory and bringing it to life through an interactive workshop experience.

A real highlight was seeing the variety of approaches practitioners take in positioning Insights, and how they can extend its impact across a broader audience within their client base.

Powerful learning, great energy, and plenty of insight to take forward into our work.

Do you want to know more about how we support and enable Insights Discovery practitioners? 

DM us, and we'll talk you through it.

Learn more about the leadership profile here: 
https://lnkd.in/ert6-Cqf
 

It was great to see over 20 Insights Client Practitioners register for today's masterclass on the Unify Team Assessment and team coaching workshop. 

The Unify Team Assessment is built on 48 statements across 16 facets. The assessment blends insights from Project Aristotle, the Insights Discovery colour model of behaviours, and Patrick Lencioni's 5 Dysfunctions of a team.

The result? A simple, anonymous survey that gives a team ownership over their development.

In just 90 minutes, we explored how to benchmark and map results, present the data with confidence, and run a focused team coaching workshop that leads to accountable actions and a clear path to track progress.

Learn more about the Unify Team Assessment here:

https://lnkd.in/etH9JX-q

This month’s Insights Discovery Client Practitioner Masterclass focused on a topic many of us face regularly: Difficult Conversations - both how to have them effectively, and how to facilitate workshops that help others do the same.

Unsurprisingly, this proved to be a hot topic with a quarter of our practitioner network registering.

Here’s what we explored together:

❤️ How emotion shows up in difficult conversations, and how the colour energies tend to react under pressure
🧠 The rational vs. irrational cognitive processes that influence how conversations unfold
🥸 Insights from Jefferson Fisher’s new book, How to Improve Your Next Conversation
🗺️ How to effectively prepare and plan for a difficult conversation
👩‍💼 Practical activities you can use when facilitating a Difficult Conversations workshop

If you deliver Insights Discovery and would like to join one of our free Practitioner Masterclasses, drop us a message and we’ll be happy to share more details.

What if better communication at work started with better self-awareness?

Our Insights Discovery Workshop helps individuals and teams gain a deeper understanding of how they think, communicate and show up at work.

Through interactive exercises and discussion, participants gain valuable personal insights into their strengths, blind spots and communication style. This greater self-awareness helps them recognise how their behaviour can impact colleagues, clients and team dynamics.

Delegates will also learn how to identify and adapt to different communication styles, helping them build stronger relationships, reduce misunderstandings and collaborate more effectively.
The result?

✔ Greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence
✔ More confident and effective communication
✔ Stronger, more connected teams